pageants pageants

Over the weekend we tried a new pageant system with the Jelly Bean. It went pretty good. We had to get up early on Saturday morning to be able to get to the town where the pageant was going to be at. We had to drive like 45 minutes to 50 minutes, maybe a hour after stopping to get breakfast. We had to have her register by 9:45 am. We got there about 9:20 I think dont remember the exact time we got there. After paying for Mike and I to get in to the venue I got Jelly Bean registered and then went to the dressing room to get her ready. There was two things that brother me about the dressing up. One was that there was a guy in there helping his wife with their daughter. I get that they was babies and toddlers but I do believe that father's shouldn't be in the dressing room full of little girls. They had separate dressing rooms for boys and girls for a reason. As they dont want males in the room with females. So I really think father's shouldnt be in the dressing rooms. But that was not my biggest issue with the dressing. I was trying to fix Jelly Bean's hair and get her ready. Jelly Bean was already fighting me a little with me fixing her hair, so I was already struggling with her alittle. But Jelly Bean does not like it when anyone laughs at all. She will scream and crying. Well in the dressing room some people started laughing and you guessed it she started screaming and crying. It just felt like these people knew it to ( I know they knew it as I was telling her that they was not laughing at her. To try to calm her down) as it just seemed like they would get louder everytime she would scream and laugh. Needless to say this mommy almost had a melt down in the dressing room. I just got so tired of trying to calm her down and finish up her hair so I just left it like it was and just put a bow in it and then put her dress, socks, and shoes on and gather up our stuff and walked out of the dressing room. 
Jelly Bean wouldn't even walk out of the dressing room because she was so upset about the laughing. I carried her to her daddy and left her with him while I went cooled down a few minutes. Once she calmed down and mommy calmed down also we had a pretty good pageant day. Jelly Bean was walking around and dancing around until she had to go up on stage. I was kind of worried that she would crying and pitch a fit on stage but she didnt. She didnt really want to walk on stage but she did not cry on stage like she had done at last pageant or two. She even gave them a little bit of a smile on stage and waved bye when she started to get off stage.  ( I will post a link to a video of her pageant. at the end of the blog so you can see her in action. ) She got Second alternate and that is okay we really dont do the pageants as we got to win the big titles. If she wins them she wins them it is not going to hurt our feelings if she doesnt. I want her to learn that is okay to lose some and it is okay to win some. We are just proud of her for doing her best. And we was really proud that she did not cry on stage. That may have been because we promised her if she did not cry on stage then she would get a toy. And yes she got a toy for not crying on stage. She also got photogenic. She is very photogenic lol. She has gotten photogenic in the last two pageants (counting this one makes three).
She has three more pageants coming up but we are hoping that we will be able to put her in at least two more pageants this year but three more would be good. We are hoping to put her in one that is in July. She has one in August and one in Sept. We are hoping to put her in a halloween one and a christmas one. She also has one in Nov also. The christmas one we are hoping to put her in is with the pageant system we started with and we are looking forward to that.

Here is the link to our youtube channel. We will have videos of her pageants there and videos of other things. But it will most likely be videos of just Jelly Bean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz8LDUzYq5k&t=106s  follow us on there. We are really just now getting started on videos on there.
We hope you all are doing good and had a good weekend.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there in the world. I hope you all have had a wonderful day. My day has been wonderful. I got to wake up next to my husband and daughter. I love getting to wake up next to her and see her smile every day. Yes, there is some days she will wake up cranky but most days she wakes up with a smile on her face. This morning mike told me to stay in bed for a little while. As I was going to type a mother's day status on facebook mike and jelly bean walks by thru the door and says Happy Mother's Day mommy. They gave me to cards one from just mike and one from just Jelly Bean and I love both of them. Jelly Bean got me some flowers (which she gave them to me on Friday lol) and a necklace set that had one for me and one for her. It is so cute. and Mike got me a amazon gift card. hey i did tell him to get a gift card. didnt matter what kind. (he really did not have to get me anything but I glad he did). After opening gifts we got ready to get our day started. We went to eat breakfast and then drove like 45 minutes away to the space and rocket center. I do believe that has become a mother's day tradition and that is okay with me. I love getting to see Jelly Bean's reaction every year. We just let her walk around every where we did not use the stroller at all and I think she enjoyed that more then anything else lol. She had fun and that is all that matters.
Okay on to something else, Jelly Bean's pageant had gotten rescheduled but the days that they rescheduled it for we will not be able to do it so She will not be doing a beauty and beast pageant. I do plan on taken some father and daughter photos of Mike and her and I think them dressing up in their outfits will be the perfect outfits for that photoshoot. I so cannot wait to do them. She does have another pageant coming up at the end of this month and then one in Aug, Sept, and Nov. We are thinking about doing one in Oct and a christmas one but we will see if we have the money for those as we have joined a dance school for her and it starts in Sept so there will be that monthly payment and I think it will be worth it as she loves to dance. We may just do these next four pageants and then call it quits on them for a little while. But we will see as we do love doing them.
Well I am going to go but will try to write another blog post soon.

Beach Trip

We had decided to take a vacation back in Dec or Jan but we was not sure on where we wanted to go. There was like three possible choices that we had. We thought of the Great Smokey mountains, a beach trip (not sure which beach when we was thinking of going to one), and Atlanta.  We put each one down on a piece of paper and let Jelly Bean draw it out of a hat and which one she drew out was where we go on vacation.

 Lucky for us and for her she reached her little hand in the hat (okay it was a bowl but we will call it a hat lol) and pulled out a piece of paper. We opened up that paper and seen the word beach. So that is where we went on vacation. We started to looking into which beach we wanted to go and what hotel we wanted to stay at. We had decided on Pensacola Beach and the hotel was a Holiday Inn Resorts. It was a very nice place.  Up next was deciding on when to go and saving up the money for it. We had original decided to go the last week of April but plans had to be changed because Mike had to work. It was a good thing we hadn't reserved the hotel room before we found that out. So we went down to Pensacola Beach on the 1st of May and came back home on the 4th of May (May the fourth be with you lol).

On our drive down to the beach I started to get a little sick. I thought it was because of motion sickness as I was sitting in the back with Jelly Bean but nope it wasn't. That night I was up pretty much all night sick. Then the next morning I did not feel like doing anything. I did have Mike go to the little hotel store to see if they had anything for upset stomach. I took what he got for me to take. I told him that him and Jelly Bean could go on down to the swimming pool but not the beach as I wanted to see her  reaction her first time on the beach.  After maybe about a hour or two I went down to the hotel pool and tried to enjoy some time with them. Then we walked out to the beach (why yes we stayed at a hotel that was the beach, so much easier to do) and it was really great seeing what Jelly Bean thought of the ocean and sand. She really loved it. She didnt love the waves coming up on the beach. The current was very strong the whole time we was there. After being on the beach for a few moments we decided to go back to the room as Jelly Bean was starting to get tired and needing a nap. 

After she took a nap we had lunch and then got ready to go play in the sand. She played for a little bit in the sand and watched the waves but she was ready to go back to the hotel swimming pool. She loved the swimming pool the best. I think because she was in her little floaty we bought with us to have in the pool for her and she was just going around the lazy river (yes we was still with her floating around in the lazy river. She never got out of our sight).

The next day we took family photos on the beach and then went to a aquarium. It was not all that great of a aquarium. So we plan on carrying her back to another aquarium before the summer is over with. I had really thought I was feeling better on this day but nope that night I was sick again. I am glad I had gotten sick that night instead of on our back home. Yep we was left the beach the very next day. It was a long trip back as we had stopped of to see some of Mike's family. 

Jelly Bean did very good on the trip down to the beach and back. We was so scared that she was going to be crying the whole time, as she does that sometimes when we go see my parents who lives like two hours away. But she did pretty good. I am glad that we took this trip while she is still this young as now we have this experience of seeing her enjoy it. We hoping to go back to the beach again next year. We are also hoping to be able to take a little getaway for our adoption day celebration. I do not know where we will be going on that. We was hoping it would be Disney World but I do not see that happening, as it would cost to much. Maybe we will be able to go to the Smokey Mountains for that but we will see. 

We hope you all are doing good. I will try to write more later. I will try to write about Jelly Bean's Beauty and the Beast pageant that is coming up on Saturday. It should be fun.

If I dont get to write then or for mother's day Happy Mother's Day to all you mommies and mommies to be out there and to all the dads that are both mom and dad happy Mother's day for you also.